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Happy Birthday, Edgar Barrier!

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Mar 4th 2019

Life in motion pictures was never easy for actor Edgar Barrier. It wasn’t that the work was difficult—it’s that whenever E

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 17th 2019

A newspaper man once referred to actor Staats Cotsworth—born in Oak Park, Illinois on this date in 1908—as “the Clark Gable

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 12th 2019

In the 1950s, with technological strides being embraced by the dying medium of radio, the Columbia Broadcasting System star

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 6th 2019

During his long-running stint as the titular sleuth on Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons, actor Bennett Kilpack—born William

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 31st 2019

Though most people remember veteran newsman Mike Wallace from his long-running stint on the television investigative news p

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2018

Actress Jeanette Nolan—born in Los Angeles on this date in 1911—met future husband John McIntire while working on a West Co